Audience: Baseball Fans Sorry, Pete Pete Rose was not gifted with extraordinary athletic ability, as were so many of baseball's all-time greats. ... Sadly though, almost as indisputable as Rose's greatness on the baseball diamond is the fact that he gambled on baseball. Baseball's capital crime, gambling, calls for baseball's capital punishment: banishment. ... Rose denies to this day that he ever bet on baseball. ... In 1990 he was convicted of tax evasion and served five months in prison, three months in a Cincinnati halfway house, and paid a $50,000 fine for fai...

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• Grade Level: High School